{"id":46160,"date":"2022-12-26T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/?p=46160"},"modified":"2023-01-09T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:04:16","slug":"how-i-discovered-my-wifes-extreme-deficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/how-i-discovered-my-wifes-extreme-deficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Discovered My Wife\u2019s Extreme Deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a hard email to write.

It\u2019s a story that my wife was very hesitant for me to share publicly.

But it\u2019s a scary wake-up call that we need to share as people who care deeply about the plant-based movement and getting people healthy with whole-foods nutrition.

Because if it can happen to me (someone who thinks about plant-based nutrition, literally, every single day) then it can happen to anyone.
Here\u2019s the story:

We recently (secretly) launched a new platform for checking your micronutrients and other biomarkers using a third-party, CLIA-certified lab. It\u2019s pretty cool.

So obviously I wanted my wife to benefit from that peace of mind, especially because she\u2019s nursing our new baby.

In particular, I was concerned about her levels of Vitamin D and DHA, which are absolutely critical for a growing child. And up until starting solid foods, the baby\u2019s only source of nutrition is mom\u2019s nutrients.

Her vitamin D levels were fine during the pregnancy. She was checked by the doctor (probably because I brought it up). Unfortunately, it\u2019s not standard of care to check for DHA levels\u2026 but thankfully I was able to use these at-home tests, and we confirmed things were fine.

But just 6 months later, the baby was here, and she was one of the first 300 people to try out our new service.

I was shocked to see the results: We learned that she has extremely low-vitamin D and very low Omega-3\u2019s (DHA\/EPA).

She had been supplementing \u2014 with Complement along with pre\/post-natals. But, as we discovered, she\u2019s breastfeeding and clearly her body is putting all the vitamins she has into the growing baby, leaving her with nearly nothing.

We even knew this would happen, and so she had been taking higher doses than a typical lady of her size, age, and lifestyle.

But we never know what\u2019s actually being absorbed from her food and supplements (or complements)<\/em>, or what is actually reaching her cells. And so the questions began:<\/p>\n\n\n\n